2014 Must Reads: The 100+ Best Books of the Year

Boy, Snow, Bird

Reminiscent of the Snow White fairy tale, Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi is about a woman named Boy who finds herself in a small Massachusetts town, where she marries a widowed man who has a young daughter, Snow Whitman. She evolves into a wicked sort of stepmother, forced to confront herself and her beliefs when she has a daughter of her own, Bird.